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Letters
Letters
Thoughts on Minds • Plumbing and Modesty • Decline and Rebirth • Niesche Nietze Nietzsche Now • Free Won’t • Sympathetic Fallacies • Pain, Happiness & Conceptual Art
Thoughts on Minds
Dear Editor: I was fascinated to read in Peter Stone’s review of Daniel Dennett’s book, From Bacteria to Bach and Back in PN Issue 129 that the book was actually written by a crowd of tiny robots! Amazing! Think of the logistics required to get them all to work together coherently, particularly when it seems that none of them speak English!
However, my amazement changed to concern when I thought about the royalties that the book will earn. Dennett has admitted that the tiny robots wrote the book, but he’s still claiming to be the author! Clearly he intends to keep the royalties to himself instead of ensuring that the tiny robots get what is rightfully theirs. Sadly, Philosophy Now appears to be colluding in the swindle by crediting Dennett with sole authorship in all its headings and listings. I trust that PN will print a correction in the next issue, acknowledging the true authorship of the book [the robots, Ed]. Indeed, it would be highly commendable if PN were to go further and initiate legal proceedings against Dennett on behalf of the robots.
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